Jane’s Addiction have now cancelled their entire tour following the bust-up between guitarist Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell onstage.
‘Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour,’ Navarro said in a statement Monday.
He continued: ‘Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs.’
‘We deeply regret that we are not able to come through for all our fans who have already bought tickets. We can see no solution that would either ensure a safe environment on stage or reliably allow us to deliver a great performance on a nightly basis.’
Navarro signed off the statement with a heartbreaking message, adding: ‘Our hearts are broken. Dave, Eric and Stephen.’
Jane’s Addiction have now cancelled their entire tour following the bust-up between guitarist Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell onstage.
The post comes hours after Farrell’s wife broke her silence after her husband attacked his lead guitarist, claiming the frontman was upset by being ‘drowned out’ by his bandmates playing too loudly.
Farrell’s wife, Etty Lau, took to Instagram to share her husband’s side of the story after he was slammed for body-checking and punching guitarist Dave Navarro on stage on Friday night.
‘Rather than speculating, I thought to post a first person account of what happened on stage,’ she wrote.
Lau said Farrell has been struggling with ‘tinnitus and a sore throat every night’ that has affected his voice, and he ‘felt that the stage volume had been extremely loud and his voice was being drowned out by the band’.
Lau said that there had been ‘tension and animosity between the bandmembers’, but felt that this was not always a bad thing as it was also ‘the magic that made the band so dynamic.’
Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell seen performing at Lollapalooza, Chicago, in 2016
But on Friday night, Lau said her husband reached breaking point after he was heckled by fans who couldn’t hear him.
‘When the audience in the first row, [they] started complaining up to Perry cussing at him that the band was planning too loud and that they couldn’t hear him, Perry lost it,’ said Lau – a former original member of the Pussycat Dolls when it was a dance troupe.
‘He wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.’
Attendees say Farrell appeared to be heavily intoxicated at the Friday night show, with others claiming it was far from an unusual sight for the frontman who is known to down bottles of wine on stage.
Fans said tensions began rising during the band’s rendition of ‘Mountain Song’, and by the time they got to ‘Ocean Size’ three song’s later, Farrell was seething.
‘The band started the song Ocean before Perry was ready and did the count off,’ Lau said.
‘The stage volume was so loud at that point, that Perry couldn’t hear pass the boom and the vibration of the instruments and by the end of the song, he wasn’t singing, he was screaming just be to be heard.’
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